Improved wash-board



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Letters Patent No. 68,481, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVED WASH-BOARD.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, PIERRE AUDAUIN, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have' invented a new and improved Wash-Board; and I do hereby decla-re that the followingjs a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being' had to the aecompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

' The present invention consists in forming the corrugations or grooves in the washing or rubbing surface of a wash-board at an angle of inclination more or less great to the length'of the rubbing surface, whereby the water expressed from the clothes, as they are rubbed, is more freely conducted off and'down into the tub in which the board is placed. In the accompanying sheet of drawings my improved wash-board is illustrated- Figure 1 being al front view of the rubbing surface to tho board, and

Figure 2 'a section, taken on the plane of the line x as, iig. 1..

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A, in the drawings, represents the frame, in which the wash-board B is secured and fixed, this frame, A, having two legs, C, on which to stand the boards when in use. D the corrugations in the washing or rubbing surface to the board, which eorrugations are yangular, or inclined in direction with reference to the` length of the board, and extend from its centre line, outward, andto the side pieces or strips F, forming a part of the fra-me thereto. v

By the inclination of the grooves or corrngatious to the board the water expressed from the clothesl can the more freely escape and run off to and into the tub in'whieh the wash-hoard Vis used, the importance and advantagesot` which are obvious.

Having thus described luy-invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by LettersV Patent, is-

The wash-board, when constructed of the two boards B, having inclined grooves D, and fitting together in the centre of the frame A, in su'eh a manner that the groovfes D incline downward upon each side from the centre, whereby the water expressed from the clothes is allowed to run off freely and without accumulating in the grooves, as and for the purpose specified.`

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 22d doyof April, 1867.

PIERRE AUDAUIN.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BuowN, ALEX. F. Renners. 

